*Quotation Quotient
(Published August 25, 2013 in the Monterey County Herald.)
1. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”
A. Sean Hannity
B. Donald Trump
C. Upton Sinclair
2. “There is one other reason for dressing well, namely that dogs respect it, and will not attack you in good clothes.”
A. Regis Philbin
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Jay-Z
3. “As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.”
A. Clarence Darrow
B. Antoinette Tuff
C. James Madison
4. “We need to add to the three R’s, namely Reading, ‘Riting and ‘Rithmetic, a fourth–Responsibility.”
A. Herbert Hoover
B. J. Edgar Hoover
C. Margaret Hoover
5. “No nation is fit to sit in judgment upon any other nation.”
A. Walter Lippmann
B. Lindsey Graham
C. Woodrow Wilson
6. “Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend’s success.”
A. Edgar Cayce
B. Oscar Wilde
C. John F. Kennedy
7. “The course of true love never did run smooth.”
A. Leon Trotsky
B. William Shakespeare
C. Laura Ingalls Wilder
8. “Carpe diem.”
A. Horace
B. Horace Greeley
C. Horace Mann
9. “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
A. Ginger Baker
B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Victor Hugo
10. “Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.”
A. Bob Filner
B. John Steinbeck
C. Mark Twain
Answers: 1-C, 2-B , 3-A , 4-A , 5-C , 6-B , 7-B , 8-A , 9-B , 10-C
Scoring: 10–QQQQ = Quote-Master
(number correct) 8-9–QQQ = Scholar
6-7–QQ = Literate
4-5–Q = Semi-Literate
0-3–No Q = Quote-Dunce
BONUS QUOTE:
“Man is a complex being; he makes the deserts bloom and lakes die.” – Gil Stern
(Stern’s biography is unknown.)
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